The Saddam Trial
Why is it any surprise that Saddam wants to disrupt his trial as much as possible? After all, what prospects does he have after the conslusion that don’t include a 6 foot deep hole in the sand?
Though many may disagree, and I am still trying to settle the issue fully in my own mind, I almost think it would have been better for the Iraqi people if we’d put a round through Saddam’s head as he crawled out of his “spider hole”. Look at all the civilians, Iraqi civilians and civil servants, who have died after his capture - because he is still alive? Because of the prosecution of this trial? Mothers, fathers, school children, police officers and recruits, lawyers, judges, business men…..
Still, I counter balance myself by recognizing what the results of a guilty conviction and fulfilled death sentence will mean in the middle east. Dictators everywhere are being put on notice and there will be chills going up their spines as they realize it could happen to them more easily than it did for Saddam, the Butcher of Baghdad.
Because we are already on their doorsteps and the revolution is formenting even now in their own citizens who are receving an object lesson by this very trial.
December 9th, 2005 at 11:06 am
Though many may disagree, and I am still trying to settle the issue fully in my own mind, I almost think it would have been better for the Iraqi people if we’d put a round through Saddam’s head as he crawled out of his “spider hole”.
Come on Jerry ! It would have been easier to just drop a grenade in the hole !!! and it would have been hard for them to prove who actually pulled the pin. That way we wouldn’t have a hero being put on trial.
I still say just bring back the B52 that did the deed once before and we won’t ever have to worry about it again.
something along the lines of “kill ‘em all and let god sort ‘em out”
December 9th, 2005 at 4:21 pm
Grenades are too messy. Imagine if Saddam had been blasted in his hole - the New York Times and Washington Post would be asking why we’ve not caught Saddam yet and that we’re incompetent in our persecution of the war effort..
Sort of like what they’re saying about us concerning OBL who for all we know was burried alive in a cave outside Kabul a year ago.
Though I think the B52 a flight of Spirits (B2 Stealth’s) would be overkill in this situation there is something to the Roman method of pacification. Falauja should have been leveled; give the people time to get out then drop a 1/2 dozen daisy cutters. Of course the Roman’s would have “salted” the soil to make it unusable - the modern method of that would be “tactical” nukes. But no one in the US command authority has the political will to use them.